For Ubuntu 16.10 users or those just installing the new version of Google Chrome browser, you may encounter “Adobe Flash Player is out of date” error while trying to play flash videos in the browser.

This is because Google Chrome does no longer come with bundled Adobe Flash Player since version 54. For Firefox, you can get the latest Flash 23 beta via this tutorial. And for Chrome browser, you need to manually update the flash via below steps:

1. Open Google Chrome and go to the components and typing following line in the address bar:

chrome://components/

2. Find out Adobe Flash Player and click the “Check for update” button.

3. Once the flash is installed/updated, restart your browser and enjoy!

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I’m getting a different message that states “internal-not-yet-present” under the details in the chrome://plugins section. I’ve been working on this issue for almost three weeks now and I have no resolve. I’ve purged google chrome, reinstalled the pepper flash components…the works and still it refuses to properly update the client version from what it’s at (23.0.0.185) to the updated version in components (24.0.0.186). I’m stumped after following hours and hours of debugging information:

If you need to run an out dated version of Flash add the following string to the invocation command
–allow-outdated-plugins
This will stop Chrome from checking for updates. To protect yourself you should check yourself periodically. IF not then you are opening yourself to possible problems.
Use this ONLY if you require using an old version. I am because I play a Facebook game that is Flash based and does not work on any version of Flash greater that version 20.